Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-05-28
Pressed Bricks.

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A lady az Sanford, Fla, has 100
varieties OF roses in her flower gard
en-.
The flesh of rattlesnake when cook
ed is as white as milk and very deli
cate.
Jones has named his dog yelling
ton because of the animals profile
iency in rending bone apart.
Gordon Cummings likened an AT
rican jungle to forest of fish hooks
relieved by an occasional patch of
penknives.
If the natives of the Friendly Is
lands suffer from spreading ulcera
tion they have the limb cut off with
a sharp shell.
There are 1000 convicts in Sing
Sing prison, and it takes twenty-one
barrels of flour to make bread for
them every day.
"It commands says house
agents advertisement of "desira
BILE residence mot only view of
the pretty railway station, but also
of the people who miss the trains''.
The human hair varies in thick
ness from 1850 to / 600 of an inch.
Blonde hair is the finest and red hair
the coarsest. A German investiga-
tor finds that in four heads of hair of
equal weight, the red one contains
about 10000 hair, the black 103 900,
the brown 100000 and the blonde
100000.
Josiah Whitney, very active citi
zen of Nokomis, H., has Just cele-
brated his DIST birthday. The en-
tire Whitney family assembled on
that occasion and gave the venera-
BILE head of the house a birthday
cake of ninety-onelayers, each child,
grandchild and great grandchild con-
tributing q layer.
When the time came for Theodore
Baker to let the sheriff of Las Vegas
know that he was ready to be hang
ed he said: 'Let her 90, Gallagher
and died without struggle.
'There was young lady of Niger
Went out to ride on a tiger
They came back from the ride
With the lady inside,
And smile on the face of the tiger
A clerical gentleman recently met
q couple of legal friends looking on
at the erection of new courthouse.
The clergyman inquired, "have you
come, in accordance with the old in.
vitation, to view the ground where
we shall shortly lie p" Immediate
ly one of the lawyers replied: Not
shortly but continuously and at
great length The minister bowed
and passed on.
Many of the towns in the great
Western land are curious, and sound
strange to old country ears. Here
are few: A. B. c., Axle, Accident,
Beef Hide, Big Bull, Big Fool, Drag
gadocia. Chicory Coffee, Cow Boy,
Grab Tree, Dammit, Dirt Town,
Door Way, Frozen Greek, Good
Land, Good Night, Good Luck, Gun
powder, Hatton, Hat OFF, High Up,
Hobbie, Inglenook, lingo, JOHNNY
Cake, Jump OFF Joe, Macphelah,
Mad Indian, Matrimony, Nine Times,
Number One, Obligation, Our Car
ter, Or, Pats Store, Patta Gumpus,
Plevna (sevleraD, Quiz Quod. Rabbit
Hash, Rat, U Bet { You Bet).
A simple seismometer, or measur-
er of earthquake shocks, has recent
ly been suggested. 1t consists of
cup with four equi-distant lips, fill
ed with mercury. These lips should
be placed so as to correspond with
the points of the compass The in
tensity of the shock can be gagged
by the amount of quicksilver dis
placed, while its direction is indicat-
ed by noting the particular lip from
which the metal dropped. The in
strument must be fixed on firm
base, free from vibrations caused by
mere local circumstances, such as the
passing of a heavy wagon, and it is
evident that means must be adopted
to prevent the evaporation of the
mercury.